butt-naked

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butt-naked

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Probably related to (and perhaps simply a variant of) buck naked. It is not clear which of the two forms came first, but the earliest written evidence suggests that buck naked is present some four decades earlier.

adjective butt naked

  1. Canada, US, informal, not comparable Stark naked, completely nude. They could hardly have all marched off butt-naked.

    Similar: nude

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@misc{butt_naked_2026,
  title = {butt-naked},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/butt-naked},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}